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  <h1 class="Head">Tasks view</h1>
  <p class="Para">The Tasks view displays tasks that you add manually. You can associate a task with a resource in the
  Workbench, but this is not required.</p>
  <p class="Head">By default, the Tasks view is included in the Resources perspective. To add it to the current
  perspective, click <a class="command-link" href=
  'javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.views.showView(org.eclipse.ui.views.showView.viewId=org.eclipse.ui.views.TaskList)")'>
  <img src="PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.help/command_link.svg" alt="command link"> <b>Window &gt; Show View &gt; Other...
  &gt; General &gt; Tasks</b></a>.</p>
  <p class="Head">The following icons are used by the Tasks view:</p>
  <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" summary="Icon table">
    <tr>
      <th valign="top" align="center">Icon</th>
      <th valign="top" align="left">Description</th>
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    <tr>
      <td valign="top" align="center"><img src="../images/ihigh_obj.svg" alt=" High priority task item" border=
      "0"></td>
      <td valign="top" align="left">High priority task</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td valign="top" align="center"><img src="../images/ilow_obj.svg" alt=" Low priority task icon" border="0"></td>
      <td valign="top" align="left">Low priority task</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td valign="top" align="center"><img src="../images/complete_tsk.svg" alt="Completed task icon" border="0"></td>
      <td valign="top" align="left">Completed task</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td valign="top" align="center"><img src="../images/addtsk_tsk.svg" alt="Add task" border="0"></td>
      <td valign="top" align="left">Add task</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td valign="top" align="center"><img src="../images/delete_edit.svg" alt="Delete" border="0"></td>
      <td valign="top" align="left">Delete</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td valign="top" align="center"><img src="../images/filter_ps.svg" alt="Filter" border="0"></td>
      <td valign="top" align="left">Filter</td>
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  <p class="Head">The first column indicates whether the task is completed. Completed tasks are flagged with a check
  mark, which you add manually.</p>
  <p class="Head">The second column indicates whether the task is high, normal, or low priority.</p>
  <div class="Subtopic">
    <p class="Para">The Description column contains a description of the line item. You can edit the description of
    user-defined tasks by selecting <b>Properties</b> from the context menu.</p>
  </div>
  <div class="Subtopic">
    <p class="Para">The Resource and Path columns provide the name and location of the resource associated with each
    line item.</p>
  </div>
  <p class="Para">The Location column indicates the line number of the line item within its associated resource.</p>
  <h2>Toolbar</h2>
  <p>The toolbar of the Tasks view includes the following buttons.</p>
  <dl>
    <dt>Add task</dt>
    <dd>Manually add a "to do" item to the Tasks view.</dd>
    <dt>Delete</dt>
    <dd>Delete the selected line item.</dd>
    <dt>Filter</dt>
    <dd>Filter the view according to the type of item.</dd>
  </dl>
  <h2>Menus</h2>
  <p>Click the icon at the left end of the view's title bar to open a menu of items generic to all views. Click the
  upside-down triangle icon to open a menu of items specific to the Tasks view. Right-click inside the view to open a
  context menu.</p>
  <h3 class="related">Related tasks</h3><a href="../tasks/tasks-77.htm">Adding line items in the Tasks view</a>
  <a href="../tasks/tasks-77b.htm"><br>
  Associating a task with a resource</a> <a href="../tasks/tasks-78.htm"><br>
  Deleting tasks</a> <a href="../tasks/tasks-79.htm"><br>
  Filtering the task view</a>
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